We are delighted to announce the appointment of our new editor, Susan Clark.
Lorna Howarth, who edited Resurgence for eight years, is now Development Director at
Artists Project Earth and will continue to work with our editorial team as Contributing Editor.

10:10 A national effort to cut the UK’s carbon emissions by 10% by 2010. Sign up today.
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Ooffoo Laureate
Writing competition in association with Resurgence.
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Course
Schumacher College
Baking for a New Food Culture
30 November 2009
With Andrew Whitley and Sheila Dillon.
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Course
Bija Vidyapeeth, Dehradun, North India
Gandhi and Globalisation
24 November – 5 December 2009
A two week course to mark the 100th anniversary of Gandhi’s manifesto for non-violent social order. Teachers include: Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Samdhong Rinpoche.
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November/December 2009

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Resilience and Climate Change

The November/December issue presents a ‘Green Agenda for the Copenhagen Summit’ where key writers and thinkers, including Rob Hopkins, Crispin Tickell, and Wangari Maathai discuss the root causes of, and solutions to, the challenge of climate change.

Far from being doom-laden, this special issue sees the crisis of climate change as an opportunity to rethink our economic, social and political systems.
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Oxfam report that the most savage impact of climate change on humanity is likely to be increased hunger. In this article, Jonathon Porrit demonstrates why three fundamental principles – resilience, resolarisation and relocalisation – should underpin food security in the face of climate change.

"Six million hectares of diverse tropical forests are cleared every year."

Tony Juniper outlines a new proposal to protect the rainforests – one that would mobilise funds immediately and provide countries with the financial breathing space they need to embark on lower-carbon and more sustainable development paths.